Your Money Or Your Life

Is this a weird subject? Maybe not if you really think about it. This question will be asked of yourselves very often after you read this post.

How many times have you been in a situation with a boss where your boss has subliminally asked you to do something that was not ethical like working through your lunch or break? Or, to work overtime for some kind of strange "extra regular pay" instead of overtime pay? When you think about it, you are asked to choose every single day, your money or your life.

When you go to work, some of you are asked to do things that you do not agree with but are made to do. You are told to remember that you are on "probation". You manager reminds you that your evaluation is coming up and that only "team players" get their step increases. Supervisors are trained to, what I call, "softly force" employees to go against their sence of ethics. They dangle the proverbial carrot in front of the noses of their employees; "money."

Your money is your life. And in this economy it is terrifying to even think about losing a job. It is a reality that employers bank on when they want to put pressure on their employees. They make it very clear that you can be replaced very easily. They make sure you know that if you want your life, you will do what your boss says, no matter what. This is what is going on from sea to shinning sea.

I am not saying that the employees should have authority over the employer. What I am saying is that in the United States employees are slowly losing their humanity. Employees are working harder than ever. But, it seems, employers want the employee to work harder still. Also, we are working for low or stagnant wages. We are tired. We are stressed beyond belief.

It is a shame that there are so many people in our country that are coming to work having to deal with situations where their bosses use raises and evaluations against their employees. Raises and evaluations should be used to help shape the employees conduct in the work place. It should not be held hostage in order for the employers ill gotten "PAID SLAVERY"!

My question was, your money or your life? But isn't our money our lives. With out money we can't really have a comfortable life. It is hard to survive without money. But' as we work longer harder hours, how much life can we really hope to have. With stress and exhaustion comes sleep deprivation and health complications such as heart problems.

No one should have to make the choice of money over life. Stand up America! It is time to go back to a fair days work for a fair days pay. It is time to make sure that all employers know that we will use all of our resources to make sure that employers do not use evaluations and raises to put pressure on employees in order to make the employee work through lunches and breaks in order to make the employers' bottom line and profits increase. Let us all stand up and make a loud noise to let employers know that we no longer want to have to ask collectively; your money or your life?


Peace to my people.